...other than shooting dead children in front of their parents.
Likely only because the Talban are concerned that the West might come back.
That won’t last...get to the border or airport anyway you can and get out.
Take advantage of their forebearance...it won’t last long, I fear.
(They have the complete A-stan govt [U.S. created] biometric data base of everyone who ever worked for or with the Americans. Photos, fingerprints, job description, address, etc.)
The Taliban have total control over the evacuation. Because the Fool of Kabul abandoned Bagram, we are at the complete Taliban mercy. They drop one mortar on the runway, and the evac stops, and the approx. 10,000 U.S. personnel still in A-stan will become hostages with rescue impossible.
So the Taliban is outwardly acting reasonable during this interim period, but once we're gone, they will exterminate all the Afghanis who worked for or with us.
That's why they put a cordon around Kabul airport, and are not letting any Afghanis inside it. Our Afghan allies are marked for death.
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The Taliban do absolutely nothing to advance a country or it's prosperity thru a growing GDP.
“He said the militants are “keeping the streets calm, they are avoiding public disorder” - and added: “What we’re not getting are reports of them behaving in a medieval way like you might have seen in the past.”
As long as the UK has citizens in Afghanistan, they need to keep repeating the above...
so typical of Sky UK (Comcast) - the biggest Taliban apologists.
This UK general probably thinks the best way to get folks out of the country is by kissing Taliban ass. And I suppose he’s right. Thanks to Biden, there really is no other option.
He should read his own tabs...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15898067/woman-executed-taliban-not-wearing-burqa-death-squads/
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/female-afghan-activist-flees-british-24783005
No reports of Taliban behaving medieval? I’ve seen a lot of reports of them doing just that. I hope at least some good comes out of this disaster... like Biden’s impeachment and Harris’s too. What a way to distract from all the election fraud audits.
They are. They don’t want to harm westerners. They only want them all gone.
Then the nice-nice goes away.
Any and all who collaborated with the West will die. Or worse.
Then they will begin planning/facilitating the harm of the West.
An eight year old would know this.
Too bad we don’t have eight year olds in positions of authority.
“They are keeping the streets of Kabul very safe and indeed very calm.”
So, these primitive cave-dwellers do a better job on law and order than Lori Lightfoot? Probably. It looks like there are gun all over the place. Shouldn’t there be “gun violence” breaking out all over? The Taliban is showing that they learned at least something about the PR game over the last 20 years. They aren’t tightening their grip until the world has moved on to the next thing.
It’s against their nature but in their interests to do so.
They are seeking international recognition of their governance.
Showing some magnanimous behavior advances that cause.
Once they establish the desired international recognition and trade agreements, then it can be back to business as usual.
This generation may get to know an old term that has become rare these days.
POW- PRISONERS OF WAR